.The swift ascent of modest Feline Ollie Dempsey has actually been awarded, capped the 2024 Rising Celebrity award as aspect of the AFL honors night.Dempsey surveyed 52 ballots to pip North Melbourne's George Wardlaw (43 ballots) and also end up being just the second Geelong player after four-time premiership celebrity Joel Selwood (2007) to win the Increasing Celebrity award.Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were actually effectively ahead of Brisbane's Kai Lohmann (21 ), St Kilda's Darcy Wilson (15) as well as Marsupial Colby McKercher (12 ), that filled out the top five.Watch the best protection of the 2024 AFL finals, along with professional analysis as well as every activity up until the Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks throughout play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your totally free trial today > Finals Week 1IMAGINE WHAT YOU CAN BE PURCHASING AS AN ALTERNATIVE. Absolutely free and private help telephone call 1800u00a0858u00a0858 or even visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.Dempsey questioned five ballots coming from nine of the 11 courts, with merely Abbey Holmes and also Josh Mahoney certainly not offering the Geelong ahead the greatest ballots. Mahoney provided Lohmann five ballots and Wardlaw four.An item of the Sandringham Dragons, Dempsey is yet another Geelong draft bargain after being taken as a rookie in 2021. He played merely seven games and kicked pair of objectives throughout his initial two seasons with the nightclub. However he is actually ended up being a mainstay of the Cats' finest 22 this period, booting 21 targets as well as averaging 17.7 fingertips coming from every one of Geelong's 23 games.Oliver Dempsey of the Pussy-cats. Photo: Graham Denholm/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesDempsey was actually the Cycle 1 candidate after his three-goal, 15-disposal efficiency versus St Kilda.Dempsey wasn't the scorching early-season much-loved to win the honor after West Shoreline's Harley Reid and also Western Bulldogs' Sam Darcy tough beginning to the year.But the duo became disqualified to succeed the Climbing Superstar after they were actually each appended for occurrences in Cycle 12. Dempsey as well as Wardlaw were at that point catapulted in to favouritism, with Dempsey finishing the season stronger.Geelong positive on Hawkins come back|02:27 Speaking on Fox Footy's AFL 360 pair of days prior to the AFL Honors Night, Geelong trainer Chris Scott stated Dempsey would certainly be a deserving yet modest champion." He will certainly acknowledge that there are a couple of truly well-performed gamers who are actually disqualified. Yet that should not change the manner in which he experiences concerning the means he is actually set about his footy," Scott informed AFL 360 on Tuesday evening." I like that as a trainer when you possess gamers that transform the means you think about points, even discreetly." Ollie's simply some of one of the most hopeful, delighted people you'll meet." AFL RISING CELEBRITY 2024 VOTES AND LEADERBOARD1. Ollie Dempsey (Geelong Kitties)-- 52 votes2. George Wardlaw (North Melbourne)-- 43 votes3. Kai Lohmann (Brisbane Lions)-- 21 votes4. Darcy Wilson (St Kilda)-- 15 votes5. Colby McKercher (North Melbourne)-- 12 votes.